Caroline Dowd-Higgins is passionate about helping individuals and organizations successfully adapt to today’s complex, uncertain, and high-velocity work environments. Her coaching, writing, and speaking endeavors help leaders develop more collaborative, creative, entrepreneurial, and change-agile capabilities. She specializes in working with mid-career leaders, first-time C-suite leaders, and pinnacle role executives. 

Dowd-Higgins is a member of the International Coaching Federation and is certified as a LeaderShape Transpersonal Leadership Coach, a Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coach, and a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach. Additional training includes the following frameworks: design thinking, shared equity leadership, mitigating bias, and creating inclusive cultures. 

She is passionate about unlocking the art of the possible, and her engaging and inspiring style helps people and organizations navigate change, overcome challenges, and elevate strengths so they can thrive. Dowd-Higgins has held executive leadership roles in organizations, so she knows firsthand the difficulties and opportunities found in a competitive career marketplace. Her client list includes organizations such as Eli Lilly, Salesforce, Brocade, Meta, Cook Medical, BAIRD, Endress+Hauser, Deaconess Health, Sanofi, Rolls Royce, Nielsen, and Vision Three. She provides tools and resources to help develop healthy and sustainable work cultures with a focus on talent development, retention, and growth. 

As a testimony to the power of transferable skills, prior to working as a leader in the corporate, higher education, and non- profit sectors and establishing her coaching, speaking, and consulting practice, Dowd-Higgins worked as a professional opera singer in Europe and the United States. She knows the power of career reinvention and is adept at helping individuals finetune their communication skills to improve their executive presence and effectiveness in the workplace. Her many years of singing on the professional stage helped her hone the art of influence and impactful communication. 

A sought-after public speaker, Dowd-Higgins presents to global audiences, and her TEDxWomen talk about reframing failure and defining success on your own terms has been celebrated as a must-watch resource. Dowd-Higgins hosts the three-time award- winning podcast, Your Working Life, available on all major podcast platforms. She is a contributor to Ellevate Network and LinkedIn. Her video series about career and life empowerment is available on YouTube. Her first book, This Is Not the Career I Ordered: Empowering Strategies from Women Who Recharged, Reignited, and Reinvented Their Careers, is still inspiring readers and has been translated into Chinese.